sexual orientation
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The bill would make it a criminal offence to provide conversion therapy, or to engage in coercive conversion behaviour, with the goal of changing a person's sexual orientation or gender identity.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
He wrote the court’s four major rulings rejecting discrimination based on sexual orientation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2026
Clayton County, a 2020 Supreme Court decision that established workplace discrimination protections based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2026
Clayton County, which held that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act protects against employment discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.
From Slate ● Jul. 6, 2026
While race and sexual orientation are perfectly appropriate aspects of one’s identity to embrace, criminality for its own sake most certainly is not.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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